The Vancouver Canucks have acquired ahead Elias Lindholm from the Calgary Flames, the staff introduced Wednesday evening.
In alternate, the Flames will obtain ahead Andrei Kuzmenko, defencemen Hunter Brzustewicz and Joni Jurmo, a 2024 first-round draft decide, and a 2024 conditional fourth-round decide.
The 29-year-old Lindholm joins the NHL-leading Canucks having posted 9 targets and 23 assists in 49 video games for the Flames to this point in 2023-24.
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Lindholm was traded to Calgary in 2018 by Carolina and loved one of the best years of his 11-year profession with the Flames, together with a career-best 42-goal season in 2021-22.
Kuzmenko, 27, has struggled this season, with solely eight targets and 21 assists in 43 video games to this point and has been a wholesome scratch a number of occasions.
Kuzmenko signed a two-year, US$11 million contract extension in January 2023.
The ahead has been open about his level manufacturing struggles this season and has been moved up and down traces by Canucks head coach Rick Tocchet.
Tocchet labelled Kuzmenko’s play throughout this season as simply “OK,” and says the ahead wants “to begin to play just a little more durable.”
“I have to be higher, this I perceive. That’s why I haven’t performed (as a lot) this season,” he mentioned in November.
Canucks common supervisor Patrik Allvin, who signed a three-year extension on Wednesday, paid tribute to Kuzmenko’s work in Vancouver.
“To start with, I need to thank Kuzy for all that he did for the Vancouver Canucks. Andrei labored exhausting at bettering his recreation and making an attempt to regulate to life as a professional in North America,” mentioned Allvin in a press release.
“In buying Elias Lindholm we really feel that he vastly improves our hockey staff. He’s a confirmed front-line performer and can give head coach Rick Tocchet some extra choices when placing collectively our prime two traces.”
The Canucks are tied with the Boston Bruins with 71 factors to sit down atop the NHL standings.
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